Sylvan Avenue, Bronx: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Sylvan Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 76, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Sylvan Avenue in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (100) and food nearby (55). Transit (14) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Sylvan Avenue, with 23 reports. Across every category, 59 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 39% of them name illegal parking. In all, 18 distinct 311 categories are represented on Sylvan Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 37 reports for every 100 homes on Sylvan Avenue.
HPD has cited 6 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 43 residential buildings on Sylvan Avenue holding 161 homes, with 3 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.7 homes each.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Sylvan Avenue ranks 96 on traffic safety and 28 on parking. Sylvan Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on parking. Infrastructure ranks 91 on the same scale, with housing at 30. Tree cover ranks 47 and transit 14, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Sylvan Avenue ranks 55 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Quietness is where Sylvan Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 100.
17% of the 161 homes recorded on Sylvan Avenue are rent-stabilized, 26 homes in all.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.
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